Judge, 1901-11-09 · page 7 of 16
Judge — November 9, 1901 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief satirical quips and visual jokes typical of Judge's format. Key content includes: **"Anent Tammany"** section: Political verses mocking Tammany Hall (New York's Democratic machine) and its figures. References "Tom Platt" (Republican boss), "Croker" (Richard Croker, Tammany leader), and "Shepard" (appears to be a political figure), satirizing their corruption and opportunism through nursery-rhyme parodies about "changing spots" and wolves in sheep's clothing. **Other satirical items**: - "Mental Mixed Pickles"—random observations about diamonds, heiresses, and social pretension - "Tonsorial Jocularity"—a barber joke - Bottom illustrations: Two caricatured elderly men, possibly ethnic stereotypes common to period humor The page primarily targets **political corruption** (Tammany Hall's notorious graft) and **social hypocrisy** among the wealthy. Without clearer identification of "Shepard," precise political context remains partially unclear, but the anti-Tammany sentiment is unmistakable.
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MENTAL MIXED PICKLES. D!AMONDS are good stepping- stones to matrimony. Mars. Earthwors—" Hey, you infernal mouse, how dare you plow right through my dwelling?" ANENT TAMMANY. of OM PLATT It doesn’t matter how much you know about the world if the world doesn’t know you. Some of the counts whom Ameri- can heiresses buy are not bargains but mere- ly remnants. The women at a literary club meeting enjoy it much better if ch one has a new pat- tern of Battenburg lace to work on. Some men hate to see women standing ina crowded car, therefore they n up from their pap ‘er look HEN Brudder Johnsing drinks cold chicken soup out of the pitcher he knows that he is having a shanghai- TONSORIAL JOCULARITY. Patrox—"' I'm the new customer.” Bareer—" Yes! Glad to‘ scrape up’ acquaintance with you." Got all thesfat And Croker all the lean 5 What, "twixt the two, Could Shepard do But lick the platter clean ? . ML. Ride a cock-horse To Tammany’s course To see a cute Shepard get on a lame horse. Bel Fhe goes. aa, black sheep, ¢ you any Shepard ? es, we have found one, As Smart as a leopard ; But smarter than the leopard, lots, Because he’s learned to change his spots. MM. A wolf in sacep’s clothing. We all know what he But a Shepard in at Who can be up to that 7 A wolf in sheep's clothing We understand all right ; But a Shep: iger-skin Is a surpi sight! “What time be it?" Nieuicx, Scuuitrer—"' Dot vos mine pet scheme. | ‘on der balls und den I don’t lost ‘em, ain't it?”” WN hor HAN axe A HINT TO GOLFER: “* What the deuce is that horrible odor around here?” \S (a GEE WIZZ! Meese, mei On aut And the crisi For very soon now “twill be + Gee wo!" ly, to and fro piles to see the Show, must come, as ages grow, ai, THE NEAREST TO IT YET. Blair —* There goes Smith's widow. See how bad she looks? Poor Smith has been dead two months now and his widow does nothing else but weep from m: till night! votion !" os ning That's what [ call de- Syre—" Devotion? Why, man, that’s what I would call perpetual itn emotion.” Se HE man who makes the best of everything usually gets the worst put limburger cheese i of everything. yf “There ye are, b’ gum.” comicbooks.com